Add option to move cursor position when hidden

[devnoname120]

I use unclutter with a tiling window manager (i3) since most of the time I don't use the mouse. However, the hidden cursor still interacts with the underlying elements, and this is particularly annoying when browsing the web because it will trigger the onmouseover event of all elements it goes above.

Would it be possible to add an option so that the cursor would be moved at a chosen location when it's hidden? It would come back at the previous location when unhiding the mouse by moving it.

Thank you for this awesome tool.

[Airblader]

Sure, PRs welcome. Note that it'll have to find a good way to deal with things like changing screen configurations in the meantime and that it should of course be an additional option, not a default behavior.

[devnoname120]

I agree. I don't think I will do it since I don't have good knowledge about how these things are handled. I would rather spend my time on other opensource projects I maintain than spending significant time learning what I need to know to implement it.

[amosbird]

Moving cursors would result in unexpected side effects, for instance https://github.com/jcs/xbanish/issues/40

I wonder if it's possible to make the X window ignore mouse hover event when the cursor is invisible?

[daniel-Jones]

this began annoying me, if someone wants to quickly and hackily get the pointer off screen top left, add to cursor_hide() in cursor.c XWarpPointer(display, None, None, 0,0,0,0, -1920, -1080); all previous discussed problems are a thing but it works good enough for me.

[mjkalyan]

Moving cursors would result in unexpected side effects, for instance jcs/xbanish#40

I wonder if it's possible to make the X window ignore mouse hover event when the cursor is invisible?

If possible, making X ignore some user-defined set of mouse events while hidden would be the most elegant solution in my opinion. If I think of a way to do that (or someone with better knowledge of X gives me some direction) I could submit a PR.

[amosbird]

I could submit a PR.

@mjkalyan fantastic.

[ghost]

Can there be any way to instead of hiding cursor, but to completely disable ? That would fix this issue btw.